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Welcome to the Storage Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from storage management experts. This Blog provides insights into the storage management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

Tivoli Storage Manager Version 6 first GA'd in 2009 with a new internal database, our highest levels of scalability and availability, and new data reduction features such as deduplication at the source and target. Along the way, we published "Deployment Recommendations for TSM v6 Server" to streamline customers' deployment planning and experience, greatly improving time to value for clients. The Deployment Guide is a living document with "real time" updates occurring whenever new insights are discovered in areas such as... [More]

If you have IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.x installed on your system, and want to upgrade to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center versions 4.1 or 4.2 and later, you can use the new wizard to guide you through the process. The wizard provides information about hardware and software prerequisites, and provides steps that can help you to back up your existing environment before you begin the migration. The wizard includes several migration scenarios to help you choose the migration method that works best for you.
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Every year I publish a set of predictions that I think will likely happen in the market space of storage and storage management. Here is my list for 2012.... 1) Storage breakthroughs nipping the “Digital Dark Age” in the bud Since the early 1990’s, an increasing proportion of data created and used has been in the form of digital data. Today, the world produces more than 1.8 zettabytes of digital information a year. Yet, digital storage can in many ways be more perishable than paper. Disks corrode, bits “rot” and hardware becomes... [More]

Welcome to the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) technical support
information update. This communication is designed to help you derive
maximum value from your TSM software by providing the most up-to-date
technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links
to other key information. Please take a moment to read through the
materials provided below. We are confident that you will find these
resources helpful and informative. Click here to find this month's edition

Welcome to the Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack technical support
information update. This communication is designed to help you derive
maximum value from your TSM FastBack software by providing the most
up-to-date technical information, answers to frequently asked questions,
and links to other key information. Please take a moment to read
through the materials provided below. We are confident that you will
find these resources helpful and informative. Click here to see this month's edition

Welcome to IBM Customer Support for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Suite technical support information update.. This communication is
designed to help you derive maximum value from your TPC Suite software
by providing you with helpful e-Support technical information, answers
to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information.
Please take a moment to read through the materials provided below. We
are confident that you will find these resources helpful and
informative. Click here to see this month's edition

Welcome to the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager technical support
information update. This communication is designed to help you derive
maximum value from your Storage FlashCopy software by providing the most
up-to-date technical information, answers to frequently asked
questions, and links to other key information. Please take a moment to
read through the materials provided below. We are confident that you
will find these resources helpful and informative. Click here to see this month's edition

Join us on the Tivoli User Community client webcast and opportunity for questions, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 11:00 am ET, USA. Reserve Your Webcast Seat Now Overview: This TUC webcast will provide insight and detail in the day-to-day operations and challenges of TSM Administrators. Over the years Mr. Perkins has spoken to many TSM and backup administrators to understand their challenges, goals and what they are dealing with in certain aspects of their jobs. He will touch on a few items that he has done to overcome some of the same... [More]

Your storage capacity isn’t virtualized? Don’t worry you’re not alone. The concept of virtualization of IT resources is broadly understood, however the deployment and usage of virtualization isn’t as balanced across the datacenter. Virtualization of compute –or- server runtime is commonplace, widely referred to as virtual machines (VM’s) but storage, network, desktops, and other areas that make up the datacenter can just as easily be ‘virtualized’ and deliver value. In this article, I’m going to outline why every datacenter should... [More]